155th
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- adjective
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centésimo quincuagésimo quinto
- The museum meant to house his treasure trove opened in 1922 in the complex called Audubon Terrace, at 155th Street and Broadway, a bit off the beaten track in New York.
- 155th Street
- Broadway and 155th
Examples
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Scores of highways are also closing throughout the region, including the F.D.R. Drive south of 155th Street as of 6 p.m., the Garden State Parkway south of the Driscoll Bridge, and parts of the New Jersey Turnpike.
Blog text (33) -
CONSTRUCTION SITE - DAY - 1998 A DETECTIVE'S CAR pulls up next to a couple of BLUE & WHITES at West 155th St. The northern tip of Manhattan Island.
Fiction book (2000) -
One thinks of the confidence with which a complex of museums was built on 155th Street and Broadway.
Academic text (1991) -
Audubon is buried in Trinity Cemetery, across 155th Street from Audubon Terrace.
Academic text (2004) -
In the mid-1960s, the terrace on the west side of Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets in Upper Manhattan became a significant place in my growth as a geographer and in that of many other scholars.
Academic text (2004) -
I can remember the time when, from 110th street to 155th street, on 7th Avenue, it was called Harlem's Broadway and white people on Sunday morning would come up there, and drive very slowly because that was the day when all of the colored people, all of US, were dressed to the nines.
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Today, it would be hard to understand why a handsome complex of museums was built on 155th Street, 15 blocks north of City College, why New York University built a grand campus in the West Bronx, why Yeshiva University was located up in the 180s, and why so many of New York's great cultural institutions and colleges and universities were located where they now are.
Academic text (1998) -
This year marks the 155th anniversary of the founding of our organization.
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The tournament will celebrate its 155th edition this summer, drawing competitors from around the globe.
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In 2023, she will participate in her 155th marathon, a significant achievement for any runner.
Synonyms
A person or thing in position one hundred and fifty-five in a list
Surface Forms
Morphology
155th = 155 (transparent) = 155 + th
The suffix '-th' is a standard ordinal marker in English, making the meaning clear as the ordinal form of the number 155.
Etymology
The word 155th is the form of one hundred fifty-five that shows position by adding -th. It means 'coming after' the 154th and 'before' the 156th, so it tells the place of someone or something in a list, race, or order.